In every number, each place to the left is 10 times greater and each place to the right is 10 times smaller. The decimal point separates the whole numbers from the parts (or fractions) of a number. An ...

I learned the following trick for memorizing the value of e from my colleague, Gene White. It never fails to impress calculus students (given a wide enough definition of “impress”). I learned the ...

Last year, a Japanese mathematician and a U.S. grad student smashed the world record for calculating the value of Pi. After a manic 371 days of computing, Shigeru Kondo and Alexander Yee reached 10 ...

Multiplying a decimal by a whole number uses the same method as multiplying two whole numbers. a) There were two digits after the decimal point in the question \((4\) and \(3)\), so you must have two ...

A man from Kent has set a new British and European record by reciting the mathematical expression pi to more than 22,000 decimal places. Daniel Tammet, 25, from Herne Bay, puts his ability to recall ...